As of Friday morning, Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti had raised more than $2 million from mobile giving, according to Albe Angel, CEO of Miami-based Give on the Go, the mobile-communications company working with the non-profit to coordinate donations.
Wyclef Jean says that he thinks that there may be up to 500,000 dead if Haiti does not receive help immediately. Click here to see Wyclef being interviewed on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
Fears of civil strife grew Friday in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as emergency crews raced against the clock to rescue those trapped under rubble and to keep survivors alive, fed and sheltered.
In an emotional address from the White House, President Obama promised $100 million for the relief effort in Haiti, vowing that the United States would stand with the impoverished nation as it counted what could be tens of thousands of dead and grappled with the devastation of the Tuesday earthquake.
Musician Wyclef Jean, who was born in Haiti, implores Haitians in America to "step up" in this clip from CNN. "As we sit here there are people in the dark...we are in a state of emergency," said Wyclef.
The Haitian Community of Atlanta is having an emergency meeting to discuss earthquake relief efforts. Click here for details.
In his first interview since the earthquake, Haitian president René Préval said the country was destroyed and he believed there were thousands of people dead. “Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed,” he said. “There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.”
7.0 earthquake rocks the island of Haiti. Millions have been affected by this devastating disaster.
Haiti native Wyclef Jean is asking for assistance for victims of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. The singer told ET, "Haiti today faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced.
